Cornell History Department

03/12/2026

We hope you'll support the History Department today on Giving Day!

You're about to make a big difference for Cornell!

10/16/2025

Professor Peidong Sun unboxes her new book, "Unfiltered Regard for China: French Perspectives from Mao to Xi".

09/11/2025

Radicalized: Q&A with author Cory Doctorow - Tuesday, September 16 at 5pm, Milstein Hall (AAP) Auditorium

05/24/2025

Recognizing History's Ph.D's. CONGRATULATIONS!

05/24/2025

Congratulations to the class of 2025!

04/04/2025

Join us ⬇️
Sir Hilary Beckles (Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies-UWI; A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University) presents:
"The Idea of White Slavery: The West Indies Experience in the 17th Century" Keynote Lecture
🗓️ Thursday, March 27, 2025
⏰ 4:45pm
📍 Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, Cornell
and via Zoom [https://bit.ly/4bKuUpx]

This event is open to all, and a reception will follow.
Cosponsored by the Cornell Latin American and Caribbean Studies-LACS and the Cornell History Department within Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences.

About the speaker:
Sir Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies and chairman of the Caribbean Community [CARICOM] Commission on Reparation and Social Justice, is a renown global leader in higher education and an important voice in high-level international discussions on the subject of reparations from slavery.

He is also a director of SAGICOR Financial Corporation PLC, the largest financial company in the Caribbean region; President of Universities Caribbean; an editor of the UNESCO General History of Africa series; and a Director of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre.

In December 2024, Sir Hilary was appointed Chairman/Chancellor of the United Nations University, a “global think tank and postgraduate teaching organization” headquartered in Tokyo with 13 institutes spread over 12 countries.

As a historian with a publication record spanning more than three decades, over the course of which he has published more than 20 books, Sir Hilary is well known for his work on slavery and the slave trade, colonialism, reparations, democracy, telecommunications, higher education, cricket, and Rihanna.

Sir Hilary visits as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large March 24-28, 2025.

For more info, visit adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu.

03/28/2025

The department of history is looking forward to meeting our class of 2029 and welcoming them to Cornell this fall! Congratulations!

03/13/2025

Before moving out of McGraw Hall the department of History honored the first women hired, the article can be found at: https://history.cornell.edu/news/history-department-honors-first-women-hired

https://givingday.cornell.edu/donate?campaign_id=225384

You're about to make a big difference for Cornell!

03/13/2025

Found an actual "Blue Book" when packing up McGraw Hall. Does anyone know the story behind why the color changed....both the "blue books" and the now "exam books" are exactly the same, just different colors.